Delta Warp

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A clever, futuristic puzzle game is currently in development for the NeoGeo Pocket Color.

By IGN Staff

This game has been cancelled for US release (as have all NeoGeo Pocket Color games, due to SNK USA closing its offices). If you don't mind the Japanese, you may be able to find this at an import dealer. Otherwise, please enjoy this preview, and consider what might have been...

Not that the NeoGeo Pocket Color library doesn't already have enough great puzzle games in its library, but Japanese developer Iosys is working on something very special and cool for the system. Delta Warp was in early form on the NeoGeo Pocket Color at the Tokyo Game Show last April, but what was shown was addicting ¿ once we got the concept, that is.

Features

More than 150 puzzles

Puzzle creator mode

Link Cable support for two players

For NeoGeo Pocket Color

In the game, you control a right triangle with two side, one side black and one side white. The playfield is also segmented into right triangles, and your triangle can only move along on this grid of triangles by flipping from one side to the other, or rotating 90 degrees on the same colored side. The idea is to cover black triangles with the black side of your triangle, and white triangles with the white side of your triangle. But there are obstacles that get in your way ¿ blue triangles can only be traveled over twice...then they disappear leaving a hole. Fall through the hole and it's all over ¿ so you'll have to learn how to get over them without creating the hole. There are other triangles that turn your triangle clear or gray, but it was unclear how this affected play.

What we didn't get to see at TGS 2000 was the game's two player link-cable mode and puzzle creator. Apparently you'll be able to build your own puzzles using the game's tile set, save them to cartridge as well as transfer them from one system to another through the link cable. Not too shabby.

The game will come out in this August in Japan, but there are currently no US plans...yet.